“History is an art which must not neglect the known facts.”
“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.”
“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!”
“Study the past if you would divine the future.”
“History is a vast early warning system.”
“History is philosophy teaching by examples.”
“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.”
“If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.”
“A page of history is worth a pound of logic.”
“History knows no resting places and no plateaus.”
“A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“History…is for time what geography is for space.”
“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”
“Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.”